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Russia's National Settlement Depository (NSD), the country's sole central securities depository, has tested a blockchain-based e-proxy voting system using the NXT blockchain platform. The NSD provides settlement services for government bonds, municipal bonds and corporate bonds, accounting for 99% of domestic corporate bond issues. E-proxy voting is a technology designed for corporate...

ACN sister publication Chain-Finance got the opportunity to speak to Pavel Kravchenko, the founder of Distributed Lab and project lead on EAuction.io, a blockchain-based decentralized auction system for state property privatization and leasing. The project's government and private partners recently signed a memorandum on the project. What organizations are partners...

It appears that blockchain technology is not popular on France's two political extremes. Two of France's leftist political parties have, in a document called "Digital Revolution", attacked blockchain technology along with Big Data, Internet of Things and 3D Printing for undermining the power of the state and being job destroyers....

The Supreme Court of Estonia requested in November that four government institutions answer eight questions regarding the legality of bitcoin, following a lawsuit brought by a Dutch citizen over police suppression of the bitcoin trade. In early 2014, the proprietor of bitcoin trading platform BTC.ee, Otto de Voogd, was ordered by the Financial Intelligence...

Eris Industries, distributed application platform provider, are repeating their call to arms for UK businesses to oppose the re-introduction of the Communications Data Bill or ‘Snooper’s Charter’. Writing yesterday on the apparent decision of the UK government to rephrase the proposal from ‘banning encryption’ to mandating that telecommunications encryption must...

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today ordered a bitcoin options trading platform to cease "illegally offering bitcoin options". It is the first action by the CFTC against a bitcoin options trading platform. The CFTC concludes that it has jurisdiction as it holds that bitcoin and other digital currencies...

Innovate Finance, the UK government-backed fintech membership association, today announced it will establish a blockchain lab in partnership with the Hartree Centre, the high performance computing and data analytics research facility founded by the UK government in collaboration with IBM. The proposed lab is a response to Innovate Finance members...

Leading bitcoin wallet provider Blockchain recently joined UK Prime Minister David Cameron's delegation of top-tier UK companies touring Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam and Malaysia. As announced by the Prime Ministers office, Cameron invited Blockchain along with Earthport and Pennies as a part of his commitment to make the UK the leading...

The British prime minister, David Cameron, recently re-emphasized his government's plans to leave "no safe spaces" from UK security agencies' surveillance. In parliamentary question time on 29 June 2015 and in the wake of the Tunisia terrorist attack, Cameron answered whether the privacy policies of Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other...

A blockchain solution for Greece started out as a educational white paper by Lee Gibson Grant, co-founder of Coinstructors. The question Lee Grant was trying to answer was could Greece launch its national currency backed by state owned assets? This secondary currency could benefit Greece by keeping assets under state...

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), working in coordination with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California (USAO-NDCA), assessed a $700,000 civil money penalty recently against Ripple Labs Inc. and its whollyowned subsidiary, XRP II, LLC (formerly known as XRP Fund II, LLC). According to FinCEN, Ripple...

It's like a bad TV rerun replayed all over again. The US Marshal Service (USMS) plans to blind auction 50,000 bitcoin by email. Yes, that is FIFTY THOUSAND BTC. And it's only about a third of their seized assets in the Silk Road 1 case – they still have 94,000...

Du Jun, co-founder of prominent China-based bitcoin exchange Huobi, has with other China bitcoin industry stalwarts formed the Bitcoin Development Foundation in China. The foundation, the first virtual currency non-profit foundation in China, was launched to promote the currency, improve the image of Bitcoin in Chinese people's minds, and create...

Swap execution facility (SEF) TeraExchange processed yesterday the first bitcoin derivative transaction to be executed on a regulated exchange. The initial trade was completed between digitalBTC and a hedging counterparty. Trading of USD/Bitcoin swaps on TeraExchange are subject to the rules and regulations of TeraExchange and the U.S. Government's Commodity...